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The Amazing Treadmill Desk – Three Blogs in One Day

Evie — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:53:28 +0000

WOW!!! This is amazing! Today is day two of utilizing my “new” treadmill desk. The treadmill we’ve had for a while and had sadly become quite dusty but no more A shelf we bought at Ikea that was never put up – an old shelf from an old wall unit – no longer possessed and four phone books that have never ever been opened – created an AWESOME treadmill desk.

Official treadmill desks can run you upwards of four and FIVE THOUSAND dollars! I kid you not but why spend that kind of money if you do not need to? … LOL!!! … well, if you can afford it – spend away however for those who live a tad more frugally – there are tons of ways to create a treadmill desk of your very own. As more continue to flock to the Internet the long hours spent sitting WILL affect ones posterior. Although the Internet is an awesome conduit – it can reek havoc on ones health

So – what is my GoalBuzz in this? Outcomes I am after:

Fitness: Get weight back down to the 140ish range – NO higher than 148. To once again be comfortable in my own skin (not like an overstuffed chair )

Focus: By taking my long walks I am allowing the blessing of creativity to visit me easier … see it’s working already Gosh I smiley face a LOT … but oh well. And back to focus. With the focus I find colored vividly by endorphins I will create that which I am meant to, to assist others to do the same in the way they are meant to do so … clear as mud … right? ~f-o-c-u-s~

Websites and Writing: I have over 250 domain names (I will be letting about 100 drop – that will bring me down to the more manageable number of 250ish) While on my Walkation I will blog, work on websites, and other productive things

My goal starting out is to walk a minimum of three hours a day. Imagine if this took off and every one working with a computer, who was able to do so – walked while they were at the computer. Would this affect the productivity for the good or the bad? I’ve noticed I get a LOT more typos than if I were seated at my desk.

I am now at 7.5 miles for the day and i am less than 7 minutes away from three hours … had I not done this – what would I have done? Oh Boy though I am ready for a break and a shower

How to create digital products of your own

Evie — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:30:17 +0000

More people every day are making a living online creating digital products. Every time we turn around more people are sending out e-mails hawking another digital product. Many of the e-mails are endorsing the same digital product. How do the makers of these products keep coming up with their ideas and bringing them into creation is such a short time span? The truth is, it is easier than most of us think it is. Regardless of who you are, what type education you have or even how much free time you have – you too can create your own digital product.

But how do you go about creating your OWN digital product? Available for instant download by those who wish to sign-up for your newsletter, download totally free, or even give you their hard earned cash? How do you go about creating your own digital product in record time?

I am a fan of checklists. A checklist will assist you in organizing the entire process. The checklist can include goals and a time limit for each of your items to be checked off. By doing this you are creating your own accountability system to ensure each step has been completed. A checklist ensures success faster.

What should you include in your checklist? Things such as market research and then niche research (drill down into the market of your choice) and then it’s on to keyword research. By using the keyword research you can build your product around them – this will assist surfers to find your products easier. Writing – how long will you give yourself for the writing process? Will you do it in one setting or over many? How long per session?

By entering into product creation without time limits for your goals along the way, you are entering into a squishy quagmire or a slippery slope that leaves you open to never accomplishing your goal, forever spinning your wheels in process. How can you know you are done, or even when you should be done? With time limits and set goals along the way, you are able to track your progress. Are you ahead, on target or behind. Being able to measure your progress you can then track when you may need to change or step up your strategies.

Once your checklist is in place, it is time to start your research in your chosen area, market or niche. Tools to use now include such things as Google Adwords Keywords, Word Tracker or Market Samurai to determine how many people are actually searching for the area, market and niche you would like to address.

When all is said and done, even if you have the best product to fill that area – if no one wants it, it will not be to your advantage to spend you time in this market, niche or area. This will also show you how many others are competing for those readers, or dollars. Done properly, this can save you a lot of wasted time. Making sure your niche is a profitable one before spending too much time or your money can save you a lot of headache and heart ache in the long run.

Once the research has been done, it is time to start writing. The best way to write for the Internet is to write as though you are talking to a friend. As the saying goes “what is a stranger, but a friend you have not yet met”, and in this new market we are living in – people want to buy from those they know and trust . No BS’ing those you wish to build a relationship with – even if that relationship is only one of seller and buyer … as those definitions are becoming more and more blurred everyday.

When you are writing, do just that, write. Don’t edit. Don’t re-read. Don’t think too much. Writing is for just that – To WRITE. This will allow you to crank out a much higher amount of content in a much shorter mount of time (and no matter what – Content IS King). As a matter of fact when one allows themselves to get into the flow of writing the quality of the content can actually be much greater than if one agonizes over word usage, comma placement or sentence structure. PLUS the writing will sound more natural and free flowing.

Editing comes AFTER writing – not during the writing process. Using a spell checking software will take care of this issue along the way – so if you see red underlined words – don’t sweat it and do NOT go back to correct it – that is for AFTER you are done getting your words on the paper or on the screen.

If writing is not your cup of tea – writing is a task you can outsource using many of the resources available online, however having a rough framework of what you want to have written will assist your product to be what you envision it to be.

When you sit down with your researched market and niche and have your list of keywords to use and then allow your self to get into the flow of writing. You will have a pile of digital products to give away or sell in a very short amount of time.

SO – creating digitial products is a much easier task than many want you to believe it is and you too can have your own products to offer your readers, subscribers and buyers.

Pandora – the way music will be heard in future?

Evie — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:45:22 +0000

Yesterday I became aware of a site called Pandora (no kick back, payment or affiliation of any kind for the link) Pandora began what they call a Music Genome Project (registered trademark) … About this same time we began a project at my place of work at the time (Intuit) and we called it the genome project.

The business end of our project goals was to get to the smallest particle of what made what happen when and where in the QuickBooks program. QuickBooks had grown very quickly and it had become a pieced together bit of wonder – but how did all the pieces work together? The team I had on this project were the BEST of the BEST! and they delved deeper than anyone thought they would be able to. They embarked into an unknown territory. Their focus was to uncover the genome of QuickBooks.

We went to Mountain View a few times to educate the programmers of the program about what the program THEY built did, why, and what happened IF … since I was on the management side (the *YOU CAN DO IT* motivating part) a lot of what my team did went right over my head, but I knew what they did made a HUGE difference in what happened going forward.

We knew what our goal was we carefully planned what to do and then we acted upon what we found. The potential was HUGE!

Unfortunately (in my view) the bottom line ruled the future and Intuit is where Intuit is now because of that … neither here, neither there – BUT …

The Genome projects of the year 2000 lay the ground work for the future – one of which is Pandora:

On January 6, 2000 a group of musicians and music-loving technologists came together with the idea of creating the most comprehensive analysis of music ever.

Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or “genes” into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song – everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It’s not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records – it’s about what each individual song sounds like.

Since we started back in 2000, we’ve carefully listened to the songs of tens of thousands of different artists – ranging from popular to obscure – and analyzed the musical qualities of each song one attribute at a time. This work continues each and every day as we endeavor to include all the great new stuff coming out of studios, clubs and garages around the world.

It has been quite an adventure, you could say a little crazy – but now that we’ve created this extraordinary collection of music analysis, we think we can help be your guide as you explore your favorite parts of the music universe.

We hope you enjoy the journey.

Tim Westergren
Founder
The Music Genome Project

If we lived in Oakland California – I’d be banging on their door daily – I want to work for you! I want to work for you! I WILL work for you But since we don’t and moving to California is HIGHLY unlikely – this blog post will suffice for now. I have created three seperate stations so far and I am amazed – in awe – in wonderful WONDER as to what they have created.

It is my hope the project my team undertook in the year 2000 to map out the QuickBooks genome has rendered that product as useful and awesome as the one undertaken by Pandora.

Give it a listen – try it out and see what you think – I’d LOVE to hear your comments about this new media available to us all.

Thank You,

Evie

Famous For Fifteen Seconds

Evie — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:49:25 +0000

I just joined a fairly new website called Famous For Fifteen Seconds. The cost to be added into the rotation is $5.00 per month (every month one stays a member and in rotation). The actual time a subscribers image and URL are on at one time is 16 seconds so an image will be able to rotate around the clock and not just be shown at the particular time the subscriber signed up.

From the Terms and Conditions:

As the actual time for display will be 16 seconds this will ensure if all slots are filled that your image gets a time slot right round 24 hours so will be seen at some stage at each time of day all around the world.

Sixteen seconds times the number of TOTAL available slots is 25.6 hours.

The early adopters are able to get their image shown many more times than once per day, as the images (and subsequent URL’s) are being rotated continuously. As of the time of my subscription there are still 5,749 slots available. I feel that even once the rotation is full – having ones image and url the only thing someone sees on their screen for 15 seconds will be huge. Where as the Million Dollar Home Page is a static page ~ Famous For Fifteen Seconds is on a rotating basis … so (imho) the site will end up being much more sticky (meaning people will come back more often and stick around longer)

My current image is that of a red flower (for the BUZZ and the URL is of course Goal Buzz anything to get the buzz on our goals.

This was a subject I felt I must act on. What a way to begin to put my feet purposely on to the hot coals. This is a new venture I am excited about embarking on, as the focus truly does shift to goals and *getting things done* Another of my (very) major goals are my domain names and my domaining business … and I am very curious as to what the effect of famous For Fifteen Seconds will have.

Ideas are swirling on the potential of this venture and possible ideas that spring forth from this, like the seed burrowed into soil, given water and sunshine grows to the plant it is to be bearing the fruit it bears and then the seed burrows into the soil to start the cycle all over again…. I am grateful for the follow on Twitter that alerted me to this opportunity. After reading the FAQ on Famous For Fifteen Seconds, reading the T and C’s (terms and conditions) and asking some clarifying questions of Adrian, I knew it was time to plan and then act Talk about some magnetic marketing!!!

So it is I share this find with you. We truly do have so much to be thankful for in this world, as the Internet continues to shape and mold so many possibilities. As this site gains readers it will morph into a platform for all our members to utilize to assist in defining, setting, planning and then acting on our goals.

The hard part is waiting for my image and URL to go live as again from the Terms and Conditions:

Once you have ordered and the funds have cleared in my PayPal account, I will aim to get your image online within 24-48hrs (but please have patience if things kick off and loads of people order at the same time)

OK – I can do this

Day three of the 100 Day Challenge

Evie — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:34:27 +0000

Oh My Goodness – time really does fly!

It is day three of the 100 day challenge and I am already behind. I have a lot of reasons (excuses) for why this is so, but I think the *reason* I am, is I have yet to “Pay The Price”. Not the price of the program ~ which is quite nominal, but the price of investing in myself enough to MAKE ME get up and DO … F-O-C-U-S.

Focus has always been an issue with me – I can be into something and a little flutter just out of my line of sight catches my eye and off I go in another direction … ooohhhh … what was that? So, at the end of the day I am left with *stuff* all over the place and I can’t remember what that *stuff* was for

I remember as a kid seeing George Carlin talking about *Stuff*:

It is time to organize and keep track of my stuff and focus on what I am to do … The 100 Day Challenge. Accountability happens in the 100 Day Challenge. It is time to act and begin to spread the happy of being blessed, but that is all choice we are free to choose.

For everything we do or do not do, we create. We create rather or not we acknowledge we are creating. Either we are creating *stuff* people want or *shit* no one does. Even if want we create is *stuff* that can not be held, touched, or seen … we are creating … even if what we create is nothing more than a black hole.

… hmmm … the world is filled with enough black holes. It’s time to create what people want (or the secret is …) Or creating things people WILL want. Now – how to do this? I feel it is in the 100 Day Challenge, so – back to work for me

It’s never too late to begin the 100 day challenge, and open to ones own potential.

Potential-Action-Results-Belief

Evie — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:42:23 +0000

Great Day All,

I am in need of some heap big POWERFUL To Do List Secrets …

I have decided today is a day to begin to do what it is that I do so as to create results. I am not looking for mediocre results, or maybe even pretty good I am looking for knock it out of the ballpark and into some place that makes/writes history.

So – to this one must have all components, gears, and channels running in their best form.

Potential – Action – Results – Belief … This is something Tony Robbins talks of at: http://tonyrobbinstraining.com/320/interview-with-frank-kern-and-john-reese/ if you have 38.25 minutes to invest … GREAT video You’re welcome

What is needed to BREAK – THROUGH ?

Follow-Through?

Follow-Through BELIEVE YOU CAN AND YOU DO – and YOU WILL!!!

Does one HAVE to hit rock bottom to break through the belief of rather or not something is possible. Many never have any driver to success but just an internal drive to succeed. HOWEVER we are ALL meant to succeed, prosper and “be all we can be”

Do ONE Thing – DOT – Department of Transportation – what vehicle will YOU use to get to where you want to be. Belief … Belief in that power of (y)(o)(u)(r) capability.

Why? Oh, You ARE Capable

FOCUS ~ Multi-Tasking is a catch phrase that has hurt us greatly. We CAN’T do more than ONE thing at a time. We can all fill every spare moment – BUT – we are actually ONLY doing ONE thing at a time.

Doing ONE thing at a time we are able to build certainty that what we ARE doing WILL work. Doing one thing, we are able to gain the skills needed to succeed. But that all begins with a plan. What is the potential? Can we shift past a “It’s never been done before” mindset and understand potential is only based on what action one takes.

Now taking an action and that action doesn’t work – the actions can either be tweaked, continued as is, or stopped. Tweaking with the certainty you WILL succeed draws that result to oneself greatly. Belief is a HUGE driver. Do I BELIEVE I can? Even if others say I can’t? Can one break past others overlay of what they feel I SHOULD or should NOT be able to do?

BE CERTAIN – Build certainty into your actions. Golfers use it. Basketball players do it. Execution is everything – BUT being CERTAIN it will work makes the execution able.

What is the potential – What ACTIONS will you take drive the results we get – which builds more belief … but the magic fairy dust of belief can be broken … we are ALL capable of ANYTHING we are certain we can do.

By being certain we can, we can take almost any potential and through action our results will continue to grow in what looks like an EnchantedFairyTale.com

What rituals do you do in YOUR enchanted fairy tale (each of our lives are a story we write day in and day out). Our role is to create value. Our role in life no matter what it is WE do – our purpose is to create value for others. Once we break through the barriers of what believe we are capable of – the belief in what we can do is limitless.

But what if we are disappointed? Disappointment is ONLY a lesson – tweak it, continue doing your one thing to absolute awesome success in creating value. It is all in our head … or not … I am also reading the book “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle.

We are our story ~ ??? ~ or are we not … We CREATE our Story

CHANGE Happens in a Moment. Make that change and break through Decide. YOU are the only driver you have. No One Else Can Make Anyone a Success. ~CLICK~ With Gratitude – I publish this post.

Motivation and Inspiration

Evie — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:05:41 +0000

It is my belief there are more of us saying the same thing in “in our own way” than ever before in all history combined together compared until right now, this moment.

Case in point In my travels today – one of the sites I landed upon is a blog, and this particular blog entry Motivation and Inspiration is exactly what I needed this day.

Below are the snippets I pulled from the video’s Thank You

Les Brown

Put back as retarded in the fifth grade to the fourth, most of his schooling was done as though he was incapable of learning. A chance meeting with a teacher changed the path he was on.

Someone else’s opinion of you does NOT need to be your reality. The ONLY person whose opinion DOES matter is YOURS. You are your best advocate or your worst enemy.

It’s possible. When faced with *whatever* say IT’S POSSIBLE It’s Possible.

Most people are so negative they must say no seven times before they say yes. Be ready, seek advancement of skills. The only way to “Be Ready” is to seek advancement of ones skills when there is no need, and to be “hungry”

Pursue ones passion. We must have passion in what one does. Being able to follow ones passion, one becomes more thankful.

Thankfulness breeds gratitude. Gratitude breeds success. Find reasons for gratitude.

Nido Qubein

Change from within … the only one who REALLY wants change is the baby in wet diapers.

1) Excellence is a habit: The wildly successful people form habits which “breed” success.

2) Personal responsibility: No one can whine to me why THEY can’t achieve their dreams. As children our surroundings have a lot to do with we do and do not, however there comes a point in every human being’s life when THEY take responsibility for their own actions – even if that decision for their responsibility they give over to another to control. The one “being controlled” is still the one who is choosing in every moment to BE controlled

Life is lived best when you set your self a goal.

3) Change – it is time to face our greatest fears. Change does not come from, nor just for the sake of, cause improvement, but improvement ALWAYS comes from change.

Do not change for the sake of change, but change for that which will improve … once this vicious cycle has begun and others are taught how to do and then improve, abundance is ours ALL of ours

Napolean Hill

Personal Success – When Napolean Hill was a youth and he studied with Andrew Carnegie; he told Mr. Carnegie he (Napolean) should not be a leader due to his youth, lack of education, and lack of finances:

Andrew Carnegie: Science for success philosophy, taught Napolean one GREAT truth

A power that is greater than poverty, education, greater than all your fears and superstitions.

This profound power is that of the creator. We have the complete and unchallengeable control over our mind.

Napolean Hill’s take away was: What ever the mind can conceive and can believe, the mind can achieve. (and how is that, the mind finds a way

Marci Shimoff

Dare to be happy – happy attracts success.
Don’t believe everything you think. I CAN, I CAN, I CAN
Use the power formula: Intention, attention, no tension.
Let your passion lead – have the will to go with your gut. Do what you love. Continue-continue-persist.
Don’t catch the NO Cold ~ emotional contagion. We become the average of the five people we spend most of time with. That we associate with. Spend time with people who are happy for no reason.

Zig Ziglar

By the time I got to Zig’s videos I was happily adlibbing along the way. Sorry

Can one help a negative Nellie? Drama … problem seekers … want to be negative Nellie’s. The people who complain the loudest are usually the ones who ARE the problem? Negativity breeds negativity. There is no other way to say it It has gotten to the point me, myself will actually go about shaking it off the cycle of negativity MUST end.

Do IT … If someone isn’t willing to DO something first, nothing will be done. You MUST do step number one, before you can do step number two.

The person WITH the problem – if THEY do not take that first step – no matter HOW bad the problems seem to be, or the person seems willing to change it – the person does NOT WANT to change the situation.

The eyes are the window to the soul. Look deep into your eyes in the mirror and say your affirmatives into the eyes of you. Morning, Noon & Night … and if you get a chance to sneak an extra one or two in ~ WHOOOO HOOO !!!

Before bed – I love *~* because … and go through the list looking into and through the window of your soul (eyes)

In the morning before starting the day again look into the window of your soul and say your affirmative statements again FEEL These as your truth with passion and excitement and just the first 24 hours will uncover miracles.

Everybody sells – EVERYBODY. Unless one is a hermit and the only one they interact with is themselves (they are still selling them self How and why? Who knows – but time is the most precious of commodity.

No one changes except YOU. Self talk is the worst talk. How to stop self talk … ooohhh good article to research and write

Seems kinda strange one of my domain names IS EverybodySells I love it when a plan comes together, even if I have been like Fry and been asleep for a thousand years

Gratitude – the healthiest of ALL human emotions is gratitude.

What is a Domainager?

Evie — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:17:03 +0000

A Domainager is someone who utilizes domain names as a carpenter does nails, hammers and other tools to build what carpenters do. Some carpenters build homes tens of thousands of feet big, some as small as a few square inches (doll houses ), and some make no home at all … but other stuff

There haven’t been many domain names I’ve seen that I didn’t like, but the ones I see potential bursting ideas from … I haven’t seen able to pass by. That is why sites like GoDrops – the place to go for dropping domain names is like an addiction for me Every day at 2:00pm Eastern – the drop spickett is turned on. Some days are like sprinkles, but others are like a tsunami.

GoDrops (he is also on Twitter) listens to input from those who use his service and has made many wonderful upgrades to what he offers totally FREE of charge (if you do use his services regularly – donating a few bucks every now and again is GREATLY appreciated, I’m sure )

So what is my goal around BEING a Domainager? Getting my domains up and doing what each are to be doing. Now – Focus